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Canadian coppers can snoop on web traffic

by on19 June 2009

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New law enters parliament


After ten
years of lobbying Canadian coppers will be allowed to eavesdrop on Internet-based communications.

The proposed legislation would force Internet service providers to allow law enforcement to tap into their systems and the move is said to be needed to stop the world wide wibble being a safe havens for gangsters, sexual predators and terrorists. Coppers and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service currently have the power to wiretap internet communications, if they get a warrant. But the law does not require ISPs to grant them access.

Tom Copeland, chairman of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers, said the main problem with the law is that it will be hard for Canada's smaller providers to upgrade their systems to facilitate interception.
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